No, I'm using QT 6.5.3 and I've now fixed the problem.
It was indeed a permissions problem that apparently Disk Utility missed, and
which I've fixed manually. I had only been granted read access and as such
the file "QuickTime Preferences" in my home preferences was zero-length.
I hope this issue makes it outside of this mailing list and into Apple's bug
system and that Apple includes a fix in it's next security update for 10.2,
particularly for the following aspects:
- Obviously System Preferences didn't give me error when it couldn't
write the prefs.
- The error log didn't mention anything about an attempt to write a file
being refused for lack of permissions.
- Disk Utility missed this permissions error.
The only plausible action I took that could have preciptated this problem was
the changing of permissions of the Fonts folder so I could remove the Asian
langauge fonts that pollute my fonts menu despite the fact I did not select
these fonts during my installation (hint hint). However, it seems unlikely that
fiddling with the contents of /System/Library/Fonts could affect
~/Library/Preferences, and if indeed it was the cause, it points to a serious problem
underlying the OS.
Thanks for your help,
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OSX: 10.2.8
QT: 6.5.3
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